Woodstock, again

[Mark Kohut]

Robin,

i've learned from ya how these examples fit L49...yes, they were "seen"...

I just meant that novel, L49, foresaw another 'anarchist dance miracle' that went nationwide in 1969......you don't think that was Woodstock, OK

I do. (But I wasn't there. Just, as ususal, what I read and heard)

--- On Sun, 8/16/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Woodstock, again
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 7:28 PM
> >> Mark Kohut: I  mean,
> wasn't Woodstock the 'anarchist dance miracle' forseen in
> The Crying of Lot 49?
> >> 
> >> Robin : I'd say it was the Watts Acid Test of
> February 12, 1966 at
> >> the Youth Opportunities Center, Compton, CA.
> 
> On Aug 16, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> > Coudda been both, no excluded middle, yes?
> 
> Acid tests had been going on in the Bay Area and in Los
> Angeles before Pynchon published the Crying of Lot 49. I'd
> say that the anarchist miracle was something "seen", not
> "foreseen."
> 
> In my admittedly cynical hindsight,  Woodstock appears
> more like a great marketing opportunity successfully
> exploited than a grassroots movement that riled "The Man."
>